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At age 15, Ned Halloran lost both of his parents - and almost his own life - when the Titanic sank. Determined to keep what little he has, he returns to his homeland of Ireland and enrolls at Saint Edna's school in Dublin. Saint Edna's headmaster is the renowned scholar and poet Patrick Pearse - who is soon to gain greater fame as a rebel and patriot. Ned becomes deeply involved with the growing revolution...and the sacrifices it will demand.

In a land already burning, one soldier’s mission becomes a fight for love, honor, and survival. Jan Skrzetuski, a young nobleman in the service of Prince Jeremi Wisniowiecki, rides across the eastern frontier of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as rumors of rebellion gather force. His duty is dangerous enough. But when his promised bride, Helena, is caught between family ambition, Cossack vengeance, and the fierce devotion of the warrior Bohun, private love is swept into a war that will consume whole provinces. As Bohdan Khmelnytsky’s uprising ignites the steppe, armies clash, ...

In this sweeping novel, James A. Michener chronicles eight tumultuous centuries as three Polish families live out their destinies. The Counts Lubonski, the petty nobles Bukowksi, and the peasants Buk are at some times fiercely united, at others tragically divided. With an inspiring tradition of...

A World War II Military Thriller Inspired by True Events of the Winter War In the frozen skies of 1939 Finland, death doesn’t come from above—it hunts in formation. As the Soviet invasion begins, Finnish fighter ace Lieutenant Veikko Niemi takes to the air in his outclassed Fokker D.XXI, battling overwhelming numbers in defense of his homeland. But something is different this time. The Soviet pilots aren't flying blind bombing runs—they’re coordinated, precise, and deadly. Led by the enigmatic Major Grigori Chernyavin, a disgraced stunt pilot returned from Stalin’s purges, the ...

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Stalingrad, November 1942. A German sniper has killed nineteen Soviet officers in sixteen days. No one on the Soviet side knows where he is. He already knows someone is coming to find him. Sergeant Aleksei Nort is a Soviet reconnaissance specialist — Finnish by blood, shaped by two winters on the Leningrad front — assigned to locate and eliminate the German marksman paralyzing the 115th Rifle Brigade's assault corridor through the Tractor Factory ruins. He arrives in the factory district with a political officer who has never been cold, a radio operator who is secretly building the most...

April 1945. Germany is collapsing. The roads west are choked with refugees, deserters, and the dying remains of the Third Reich. Entire cities surrender beneath white flags while Soviet armor drives relentlessly toward the Elbe. Staff Sergeant Daniel Holt and the six men under his command are supposed to be waiting for a bridge crossing. Instead, they are ordered to escort a surrendered SS officer through the ruins of central Germany. The prisoner, Hauptsturmführer Konrad Reuter, carries documents tied to a hidden war crimes site, records powerful enough to destroy reputations long after ...

2026 PEN AMERICA AWARD FOR TRANSLATION FINALIST From “one of the great—if not the greatest—contemporary Yiddish novelists” (Elie Wiesel), the long-awaited English translation of a work, Tolstoyan in scope, that chronicles the last, tumultuous decade of a world succumbing to the march...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A searing debut about the transcendent power of love in wartime, hailed as “an absolute masterpiece” (Sarah Jessica Parker, Entertainment Weekly)—from the renowned author of Mercury Pictures Presents ...

Inspired by true events in World War II Latvia, an emotionally charged novel of sacrifice, trauma, resilience, and survival, as witnessed by three generations of women. On one extraordinary day in 1940, Miriam Talan’s comfortable life is shattered. While she gives birth to her second child, a...

In Ray Nayler’s speculative novel of the recent past, four young teens caught between Nazis and the Red Army survive winter in the woods with the help of a flock of highly intelligent crows with a magnificent secret of their own to protect. This program is read by fan favorite and...

At Khe Sanh, Marine artillery officer Jim Connelly keeps the record perfectly. Every grid. Every round. Every mission complete. But when he walks the ground after a fire mission and sees what the record could not contain, he begins to understand that precision is not the same as innocence. Trained by his father on a surveyor's theodolite in the hills of western Pennsylvania, Jim carries into Vietnam the discipline of the closed traverse: the belief that if the measurements are correct, the result can be trusted. Through the Khe Sanh siege of 1968, the Easter Offensive of 1972, and the ...

A 1920s Easter Murder Mystery in the depths of rural Yorkshire A scoundrel lies dying, he makes his confession; his sins were despicable, and he wants to atone for his wasted life. He bequeaths an invaluable gift to Monks Hood Abbey, an ancient monastery set in a lonely corner of the Yorkshire moors. But sin throws a long shadow and corruption crawls in its shade.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Good Lord Bird, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Fiction, Deacon King Kong, Five-Carat Soul, and Kill 'Em and Leave In the days before the Civil War, a runaway slave named Liz Spocott breaks free from her captors and escapes into the...

All that history knows of Grace Plantagenet is that she was an illegitimate daughter of Edward IV and one of two attendants aboard the funeral barge of his widowed queen. Thus, she was half sister of the famous young princes, who–when this story begins in 1485–had been housed in the Tower by...

Goodbye Poland is a gripping true story of survival, sacrifice, and the quiet strength of a boy forced into manhood by war. Seventeen-year-old Stefan Maczka was born into a proud legacy—his father, a Polish cavalry officer, helped stop the Russian advance into Europe during the 1920 ‘Miracle of the Vistula.’ That victory secured Poland’s independence and earned the Maczkas a plot of land on the new frontier. But Stalin never forgot the humiliation. In 1939, he got his revenge. Overnight, the Soviets rounded up the same families who had once defied them—ripping them from their ...

History tells us that the intelligent, wealthy, and powerful Margaret of York had everything any woman could want, except for love. The acclaimed author of A Rose for the Crown takes us between the lines of history and into her heart. It is 1461. Edward, son of Richard of York, ascends to the...

From the #1 bestselling author of The Historian comes a mesmerizing novel that spans the past and the present—and unearths the troubled history of a gorgeous but haunted country. A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the...

“Filled with so much love, heart, and delicious baked goods.” —Rebecca Thorne, USA Today bestselling author of Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea I am more than capable of being evil today. I think… Iris Weyward wants to be bad. Truly bad. Terrifyingly, gloriously villainous. But after...

From USA Today Bestselling Author, Uvi Poznansky, comes a breathtaking historical fiction novel with a modern twist: The most torrid tale of passion ever told: David's forbidden love for Bathsheba, and his attempt to cover up the scandal. Will he muster the strength needed to protect her and save their son from danger? This is volume II of the trilogy The David Chronicles, told candidly by the king himself. David uses modern language, indicating that this is no fairytale. Rather, it is a story that is happening here and now. Listen to his voice as he undergoes a profound change, realizing ...